Plastic America, Plastic Society....

[BlueStorm]

In the past few decades, Americans have grown into a society that has become obsessed with self-gratification and self-preservation.

We see individuals and groups that only care about themselves, only care about getting their chunk of the pie. We see these people turn away from compassion and caring and instead adopt an attitude of "Well, I got mine. Too bad you don't have yours. Maybe if you work at it you can get it too." We see people obsessed with money, the top brand clothes, cellphones with the latest cool thing on it, overpriced gaming systems, ipods, etc. etc. We see these people ever more getting obsessed with surrounding themselves with these materialistic things, playing upmanship with each other. "Keeping up with the Joneses" so to speak.

We see companies that only put their own interests forward, screw the world. "We do what we want." Irregarding what the consequences would be. We see that greed overrules all.

We see people putting themselves in a debt hole so deep they can't climb out, and with no reprieve either. Yet they continue to have the need to surround themselves with the latest, greatest thing, putting themselves even deeper into debt.

The holiday season has become nothing but a greedy, self-gratification, maaterialism fest.

Charity is usually put up in the foremind during this one time of the year, yet during the rest of the year, it's pretty much "Oh go away you degenrate!! If you worked you wouldn't be in this situation!!" and the like.

People have become obsessed about their looks, people undergroing the knife to become plastic themselves. Only because the rest of society i.e. the media tells them that this is the only ideal. Young woman starve themselves to death to attain the cookie cutter ideal of beauty.


We have lost our link to one another, neighbors who live close to each other hardly speak to each other. Each is in their own world, their only thoughts are to themselves, or perhaps they are afraid of each other. Fear and mistrust are the order of the day. The foriegner down the street is not trusted. The strange looking fellow on the bus could be a terrorist.

There is barely any incentitive to know each other, instead hate and fear rule our mindset. If it doesn't look like us, acts like us, and walk like us it is to be feared and hated.

We allow others to dictate what we feel and think. Big coporations and the government have taken advantage of this. We have become like robots or computers being programmed on what to do and think.

Love is shown as a weakness. Worldly knowledge is to be despised. Stay in your own box and you'll be safe.

We really, really need to break from that mindset... we need to get to know each other and realize that we are really one species, the human race. We need to break from our plastic ideology that more is better and realize, it doesn't come with us when we die. We don't need everything that the market puts out, what good is a gaming system that cost $500 dollars going to do for you? What value does it have? Yes there are people that like to play games but is it really that important?


I know this is a rather long post and quite fragmented but my mind is a bit slow today and I am really having a hard time being succint.

Happy Holidays, Season's Greetings or whatever,

Blue

[izzie]

1. It is the same as always I think. All societies have this

Greed seems to be a world wide thing.

[greyl]

2. Nice post :)

Plastic passion is a hard to handle
Plastic passion is a sold out scandal
Oh it's a plastic passion
It's a plastic passion
Plastic passion is the ladies lover
Plastic passion is the marble mother
Oh it's a plastic passion
It's a plastic passion
Plastic passion is a diamond delight
Plastic passion is the nadir of night
Oh it's a plastic passion
It's a plastic passion
It's a plastic passion
Plastic passion is a hycoscine heart
Plastic passion is a transparent tart
Oh it's a plastic passion
It's a plastic passion
Plastic passion is a gold guarantee
The plastic passion is murdering me
Oh it's a plastic passion
It's a plastic passion
It's a plastic passion

-Robert Smith, The Cure

[90-percent]

3. hmmmmm, must...burst ....into SONG!

My little girl, she waits for me, she's as plastic as she can be. She paints her face with plastic goo and wrecks her hair with some shampoo. Plastic People, oh baby, now you're such a drag.

Take the day and walk around, watch the Nazi's run your town. Then go home and check yourself, you think we're singin' bout someone else, but you're plastic people, oh baby, now, you're such a drag........

from "Plastic People" The Mothers of Invention, 1966

-85% jimmy